Monthly Archives: April 2017

TODAY VENEZUELA - Venezuela Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez lashed out against Mexico Thursday, April 27 for the position it took in the Organization of American States regarding the crisis in Venezuela.
She suggested that the Mexican...

TODAY VENEZUELA - On Thursday, the Organization of American States (OAS) published its annual report, which details that Venezuela and Cuba remain on the “black list” of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR),...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Venezuelans took to the streets in the hundreds of thousands again Wednesday (April 26) to demand a return to democracy. At least three are confirmed dead from clashes with the national...

A public employee who refused to attend a rally in support of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro died of a heart attack shortly after being fired.
Public defender Yomar Hernandez died from a heart attack that...

Venezuela’s Defense Minister Arrives in Moscow: The Chavista regime in Venezuela is now facing the most formidable challenge to its survival since the initially successful but ultimately failed coup d’état against former strongman Hugo Chávez...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Violence and repression in Venezuela claimed the lives of three other Venezuelans in the wake of massive opposition demonstrations.
“Just died”said Chavista Jorge Rodriguez, reporting on the death of a young man...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Workers at General Motors’ Venezuela plant claim they were fired over text
message.
“GM informs you that social benefits will be transferred to employees’ accounts due to the termination of your contracts,” read the text...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Venezuela sits on the world’s largest oil reserves. It had been South America’s longest-running democracy. Now it is an economic and democratic basket case with even electricity rationed by the leftist...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Three people have been killed during another day of protests in Venezuela, state television reported, bringing the total number of deaths in this month's political unrest to 24.
Anti-government protests entered a fourth week...

"We are concerned that the government of (Venezuelan President Nicolás) Maduro is violating its own constitution and is not allowing the opposition to ... organize in a way that expresses the views of the...

TODAY VENEZUELA - The Venezuelan dictatorship faces massive citizen protests, which for the first time include far more poor people than those of the middle and upper class, an unmanageable economic crisis, and increasing...

When a totalitarian regime’s control over its population is threatened, repression is its only recourse. The Venezuelan government, facing millions of protesters on its streets for the past several days, has escalated its fear...

(CNN)Venezuela has been riven by violent protests in recent weeks as opposition leaders face off with President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters.
Anti-government protesters want Maduro to step down, accusing him eroding democracy. Maduro, meanwhile,...

(CNN) Venezuela faces shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and money. But its state-run oil company -- through a subsidiary -- donated $500,000 to President Trump's inauguration committee on December 22, 2016.
That equals what...

In his passport photo, Carlos Naranjo Moreno is chubby-faced, a healthy twenty-something from a middle class Venezuelan family in the Andean town of Merida. Now, he is gaunt, his clothes hanging off his almost...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s marches showed no signs of stopping as protests rage throughout the country for a second day.
Yesterday’s death toll stood at three, with a 17-year-old boy in Caracas, and a 23-year-old woman...

TODAY VENEZUELA - Tens of thousands of people were out protesting Wendesday in Venezuela, demanding that Socialist President Nicolas Maduro leave office. Organizers called this the mother of all marches, but there were clashes...